For the first time, the Wellcome Trust is publishing received project proposals, and will be adding funding decisions end of October.

86 people from 58 different organizations gathered in Berkeley, CA and remotely to attend the first workshop convened by the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools, to develop a common vision, user stories, and roadmap to support open science research workflows, and better coordinate work across the community of open science projects.

Almost 90% of academic clinical trials are not reported promptly to European registry.

EU rules say clinical trial results must be reported onto the EU register for every trial there within 12 months of the end of the trial, yet no one has ever been sanctioned for breaking the European rules. European academic institutes are lagging far behind companies in complying with the reporting rules.

COUNTER and members of the Make Data Count team (California Digital Library, DataCite, and DataONE) collaborated in drafting the Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics release 1.

Many scientists disagree with the CRISPR patent ruling, believing it doesn't represent how molecular biology is practiced. That doesn't make it wrong.

John "Iain" Glen, inventor of propofol, among four Lasker Award winners.

The Parliament voted in favor of almost all provisions that extend more rights to the establishment copyright industries while failing to protect users and new creators online.

Agency reminds researchers to report foreign ties, keep peer reviews confidential.

The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, which represents the organisations most directly affected financially, was one voice of caution, saying it is "vital" that researchers have the freedom to publish where they choose.

Researchers gain more access to hi-tech research tool, but data start-ups warn the narrow rules create "a backseat for Europe's innovators".

In an era of flat budgets for the agency, Jim Bridenstine has started talking about corporate sponsorships for NASA missions.

The Ad Council - along with G.E., Google, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon - is trying to encourage girls ages 11 to 15 to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math.

Major European countries are mandating that publicly-funded research should appear only in open-access journals.

Scientists in emerging economies respond fastest to peer review invitations but are invited least.

One of the UK's leading female astronomers is to donate her GBP2.3M winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers.

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will donate the money to help students underrepresented in physics.

Bold move is intended to trigger open-access tipping point.

Paywall, a documentary about the open-access movement, makes its debut and will be available online.

The tool, called Google Dataset Search, should help researchers to find the data they need more easily.

Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published.

In this Perspective, a group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, announce plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies' research funding.

The 11 national research funding organisations that form cOAlition S have agreed to implement the 10 principles of Plan S in a coordinated way, together with the European Commission including the ERC. Other research funders from across the world, both public and private, are invited to join cOAlition S.

Alzheimer’s disease will receive 2.3 billion USD, the biggest chunk of change devoted to one of the NIH’s various interests.

European Medicines Agency ends pharma evaluations work and moves contracts to bloc.

Experts are good at betting which scientific experiments can replicate despite some studies not being repeatable.

The Serbian Government has adopted a national policy mandating open access (OA) to all publications resulting from publicly-funded research in Serbia. The policy, titled the Open Science Platform, was introduced by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (MESTD), the main funder for research in Serbia, in July 2018. EIFL welcomes the adoption of the policy, which makes a major contribution to improving visibility and discoverability of Serbian research outputs.

Open letter signed by many journals supporting the idea that publishing peer review reports would benefit the research community by increasing transparency of the assessment process.

Researchers replicated 62% of social-behaviour findings published in Science and Nature - a result matched almost exactly by a prediction market.